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I was somewhat leary when I first heard of this movie, as there hasn't been a really good hard -core science fiction movie in years. I don't count Star Wars, because it's too fantasy based in many parts of it, though I love it dearly...at least the first three.

But Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway and the rest of the great supporting cast are just knock em down great! Matthew truly carries the sci-fi adventure, grounding the fantasy aspects with real humanism, thus solidifying its more Stanley Kubrickesque aspects.

The film stars off in a not so distant future when climate changes have reduced Americans to eating nothing but corn for food for the most part. Bleak indeed, though I love corn.

Dust everywhere. Huge dust storms that destroy everything.

Humanity has lost hope for a better future. And I suppose that would be true for some, as they were never really involved with making it better anyway..or should I say, gave a damn. In this future the worst aspects of humanity have won out...the corporations and the dysfunctional politicians and let America slide into the dark ages in many ways.

But a few still hope for changing everything and they are helping by a mysterious force, which in a delightful twist I won't reveal, shows that it's not the many who change the world, but the few who have courage and heart to face anything to save the world.

Visual effects are great, though not necessarily ground breaking. These days that would be hard to do unless the film were some kind of hologram, which is still a few dozen years off to be cheap enough to deploy.

The entire film focuses on family. That special unit of humanity that has become more and more missing in America, and which this film emphasizes in importance. A focus which leads to its triumphant ending and to an uplifting and hopeful view for mankind.

If you haven't seen this film, you should, if for no other reason than to remind yourself that climate change is real and if we don't do something now, then the film will not be a what if, but a what when!